Yasir Abdel Baqi

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Yasir Abdel Baqi (born 1972) is a Yemeni novelist, screenwriter, journalist and author.[1] He was born in Aden and studied history and antiquities at university. His first book of short stories was called Ahlam (Dreams) followed by a collection called Night Woman. His controversial novel Zahavar appeared in 2008.[2]

More recently, Abdel Baqi has written his first screenplay Waheedah.[3] He has also contributed to a stage play called Red Card that was presented by the theatre group Gulf of Aden in 2010.[4]

Abdel Baqi's work has appeared in translation in English and Italian. His short story "Pullman #99" has featured in two foreign-language anthologies: Oranges in the Sun (2007) and Perle dello Yemen (2009). He was also one of the Yemeni authors presented in an issue of Banipal magazine devoted to contemporary Yemeni literature.[5]

Abdel Baqi is an editor of the Aden-based magazine Al-Manara, an organ of the Yemen Writers' Union.

References

  1. ↑ Profile in Banipal magazine
  2. ↑ Profile in Arablit website (translated from Italian)
  3. ↑ "Movie script shows Yemeni woman’s struggle", Yemen Observer, October 2009
  4. ↑ Review of Red Card in Yemen Times, January 2011
  5. ↑ Profile in Banipal magazine
Yemeni literature
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